Grammar and Meaning
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Sir John Lyons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780521462211
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Linguistics; Semantics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Grammar; Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines : Linguistics; Grammar, Comparative and general; Grammar, Comparative and gener
First sentence: In the section of Lyons' Semantics that deals with the distinction between homonymy and polysemy, he notes that a major criterion 'is unrelatedness vs. relatedness of meaning . . . indeed, it is arguable that it is the only synchronically relevant consideration' (1977: 551).